Why do you want to lose weight?
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Well there are many health reasons - but a lot of the reason is vanity.1
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CCreinvented wrote: »As I've gotten heavier, I've started isolating myself from friends and family because I'm ashamed and embarrassed that I've let my weight get so out of control. I was once outgoing and social but now I'm that friend that makes endless excuses for turning down invitations.
I want my confidence back.
I want to again be able to enjoy the simple things in life with the people I love. I miss them and I miss the old me.
All of this!4 -
I'm trying to lose weight because I'm tired of being being tired and lacking energy all the time. Dealing with aches and pains and other health issues at 41 is nuts and I need to get back to the healthy me, who loved long walks. I've been going on 4 mile walks with my sis and her parents and it's proved that I need to get healthier. At the end of a walk, I am totally exhausted and just want to shower and sleep now, while in the past walks always energized me to do so much more.
So I want to lose weight to be healthier naturally, but also to be able to do more outdoor stuff - hiking, swimming and other events, without feeling tired. The Bonus will be fitting into smaller clothing again and looking better.3 -
Infertility - we are going to be doing IVF later this year and success is higher with a lower BMI.4
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Vanity I want to be lean again.2
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When I gained some back my clothes stopped fitting (I worked hard dropping almost 90lb to get those clothes) and my knees hurt all the time. I've damaged both knees in the past. I missed wearing my favorite outfits, didn't want to spend $ on a new wardrobe again, and needed the constant pain to stop.2
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I'm trying to lose my baby weight before starting to try for baby number 21
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It wasn't so much the weight, it was that I got disgusted with how much I was eating and the way I was consuming it and it was consuming me too. Just wanted out of that rut.3
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Because I'd like to be able to date and be attractive to someone.7
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CCreinvented wrote: »As I've gotten heavier, I've started isolating myself from friends and family because I'm ashamed and embarrassed that I've let my weight get so out of control. I was once outgoing and social but now I'm that friend that makes endless excuses for turning down invitations.
I want my confidence back.
I want to again be able to enjoy the simple things in life with the people I love. I miss them and I miss the old me.
This. So much of this2 -
There are SO many reasons for me but here are my top 3:
1. My husband
2. My kids
3. So I feel more comfortable being in a group and look cute in clothes again4 -
For me, it's a lot of what's been said. Vanity, for sure. The clothes that I miss, too. My husband and I used to be called Barbie and Ken. Now... we're just nice people. :-)
But, I love doing yoga, and I used to be pretty good at it. Then I got into pizza, netflix, and drinking every night after work. Now, as I'm working to get back into my yoga routine, I can't bend as far, not because a lack of flexibility, but because I have too much flesh in the way (around my waist, in particular). It brings to mind the reasons to get healthy to age healthy - to avoid the self inflicted health issues that my parents are going through. To avoid needing to be medicated...
I have two coworkers about the same age who each had hip replacements at about the same time. One lady loves hiking. Even though her hip was hurting, she kept up her hiking right until the day of her surgery (even lost a couple extra pounds in advance), and came back to work shortly thereafter with barely a limp, and she's recovered beautifully! The other coworker is overweight, and he had to walk very slowly with a cane before his surgery. Because of his weight and lifestyle, after his surgery his limp has gotten much worse, and he can barely get around with a walker. I know which of those two people I would like to be if one of my joints ever decides to give out on me!3 -
My why is cause I'm not attractive beint fat. No guys will look at me being obese. I have 0 confindene. I hate going out in public. Already on a few meds. Hoping if I drop all my weight I'm able to get off of them. I'm almost 31 and I don't want to die at a young age soo I'm on a diet and exercising to get healthy.3
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Pain reduction and vanity. When I'm lighter it is physically easier for me to live my life. I have fewer migraines and moving doesn't feel like such a chore. I also want to keep being able to see my cheekbones, look great naked, and have my boyfriend lift me easily.3
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In 2012 I was 38 and had a 3 y.o. and an infant...I went in for my annual checkup and my blood work came out really bad and the doctor told me that at this rate I'd be lucky to see 60 (my dad made it to 62)...that seemed unacceptable to me and decided I wanted to get healthy and live for my kids.
I wasn't really necessarily setting out to lose weight...initially it just kind of happened with a change in dietary habits and getting out and walking every day. Then I started using MFP because I became more interested in learning about nutrition and fitness and just kind of turned into a nutrition and fitness junkie.
I ended up losing about 40 Lbs and have more or less maintained that for 4 years now though I do tend to put on about 10 Lbs every winter with a decrease in activity...it comes off in the spring and early summer when I get back into my regular riding groove. I'm still a nutrition and fitness junkie...7 -
I have a million reasons why I want to lose weight but just to name a few. First, I don't want to be the "fat mom" at the playground and school events. Secondly, I want to have more energy to play and spend time with my daughter. And I want to find me again. I think I lost sight of who I was after becoming a wife and mom and just put myself last. Its time to find a balance2
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So I needed knee replacement surgery (I'm 61), and the doc says, you could lose 20 lbs - do that first and then see me again. I think he was testing me, to see what my committment was. So I lost 30lbs by the time I had my next appointment with him and so we were good to go for the surgery.
By the time I had the operation, I was down over 100lbs, which made a huge difference in my recovery. I didnt suffer at all, and was back to work in just 6 weeks, no cane, no walker, and even in heels again!!
My friend, who was very overweight, also was having knee replacement surgery. She asked me all about it and I told her about my experience and how it would be a good idea to moderate her eating habits to maximize her recovery. But I told her she would be fine, and that shortly we would be getting together with another friend of ours and comparing scars!
She didnt lose weight. She had the surgery and had complications with the stitches pulling apart and an infection set in. She was admitted to hospital to deal with the infection and everytime I saw her, she commented on my weight loss and how she was going to do it this time. I told her about MFP and how it really made a difference in my life, and how I would work with her on it.
She died from necrotizing fasciitis about two months after the surgery.
I cant help thinking that if only she had taken her surgeons advice (and mine) to shed a few pounds, she would still be at the other end of the phone. I am sure there were other considerations but her weight was certainly a factor. I miss her every. single. day.
Lose weight for your health. Ultimately, its the only thing that counts.
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Full, absolute, literal, non-PC honesty?
Well all right then. Because I'm getting old, I feel very ugly and like I no longer look cute at all, so I am hoping to at least have a smokin' body to compensate.
Lest anyone argue that that is shallow: yes. It's shallow. It's also not the only concern I have in my life, or the only way I gauge my worth, and it's far from the only thing I do or ever think about. HTH.5 -
I've just turned 45 and I've been overweight or obese since my mid twenties I would guess. In the run up to my separation 4 years ago I'd lost 42lbs through WW and exercise, I felt my confidence growing as I lost the weight. Following the separation, amongst the chaos of suddenly becoming a full time working single parent to two small children, then 5 and 2, with an abusive ex in the background, I managed to keep the weight off for a while, however all effort at self care had gone. Everyone kept telling me I had to look after myself but I couldn't see the wood for the trees, I was barely surviving and keeping my children safe, happy and healthy took priority over any of my needs, I gained back around 18lbs.
Fast forward to last summer, work pressures are mounting and the ex is still raising his ugly head just to keep me on my toes, I start to eat erratically, often not eating anything until 3pm, the weight falls off, I lose the 18lbs unsurprisingly, people start to tell me I'm looking good...but underneath the weight loss my body isn't happy, I start to experience pain under my ribs after eating and suffer with wind badly. This doesn't prompt any change in behaviour from me until 13th Jan 2017 when I end up in ED in excruciating abdominal pain. Yup...gallstones...multiple gallstones, requiring surgery. That was my light bulb moment really, I reactivated MFP and haven't looked back, I'm down 30lbs since that hospital attendance and still awaiting surgery, could be another 6 months before it happens (NHS cuts = long waiting lists for non-emergency surgery) but I am now firmly in the overweight category and 12lbs from healthy BMI, other than a grumpy gallbladder I feel great, full of energy and exercising daily, can't wait to get to goal to experience 'me' at a weight I haven't seen since I was around 16 years of age.
So my reasons were initially for health but are now also for vanity, who knows I might even venture back into the world of dating!!1 -
To feel good and not worry about feeling 'fat' in fitted clothes and for my man ..0
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